9/11/01 and Memory ...
(Mamilla Mall, Jerusalem)[/caption]
It's also where I met Carl in Jerusalem for drinks.
Back in 2011, when flash mobs were the rage, this dance took place (h/t Quite Normal):
But the coexistence was an illusion.
On September 1 Israeli authorities revealed the arrest of two East Jerusalem Arabs who were part of a Hamas cell in a plot to explode a bomb at the Mamilla Mall, where they worked, via Times of Israel:
I was interviewed this morning by Lee Rayburn of WHCU 870 AM in Ithaca. The topic was the release of prisoners by Israel and the Middle East Peace Process. ...
"I am peace, and when I speak, they are for war" - Psalms 120:7...
Day two in the trial of the accused Fort Hood shooter came to an unexpected halt Wednesday morning, after standby defense attorneys for Nidal Hasan requested to either be reinstated as official counsel or be removed from the case entirely. The attorneys filed a motion,...
One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Panorama has learnt.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev subscribed to publications espousing white supremacy and government conspiracy theories. He also had reading material on mass killings... The programme discovered that Tamerlan Tsarnaev possessed articles which argued that both 9/11 and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing were government conspiracies. Another in his possession was about "the rape of our gun rights". Reading material he had about white supremacy commented that "Hitler had a point". Tamerlan Tsarnaev also had literature which explored what motivated mass killings and noted how the perpetrators murdered and maimed calmly. There was also material about US drones killing civilians, and about the plight of those still imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.Let's take them one by one.
Why the sudden and hysterical terror alerts causing shutdown of U.S. Embassies in the Middle East and worldwide concern? This may be the reason, via ABC News: The senior U.S. official said there is concern about devices that could be implanted inside the body of a terrorist. “We...
When I first traveled the Soviet Union, and two guys we didn't know got out of a car and escorted me and some American friends past the long line waiting to get into a night club in Tallinn, seated us at a prime location table which...
"they were hacking at this poor guy, we thought they were trying to remove organs from him"...
Highlights Growing Threat of Online Recruitment...
At the time of the lockdown of Boston after the bombing, I noted that the Boston lock-down exposes gun culture divide over the issue of whether citizens hold up in their homes would be safer if armed. That suggestion caused a vehement reaction from liberals on Twitter, including...
Be cautious about the headline of the day...
The Boston Herald previously broke the story that the Boston Bombers and their families were on welfare until last year. Now the Herald has some more details, apparently based on documents produced to Massachusetts legislators by the Patrick administration, Tsarnaev family received $100G in benefits: The Tsarnaev family,...
Previously, we brought you reports on the Boston Marathon bombings investigation and details into the lives of the suspects, first in The Lives of the Boston Bombers: What We Do and Don’t Know and then in a follow-up, New Developments in the Boston Marathon Bombings...
Rounding out the possibilities...
Even most Democrats and liberals wanted a gun...
